Read it for
- Professional services
- Staffing
- Profitability
What this book covers
David H. Maister connects the management of skilled people with the business model of a professional-services firm. For paid media owners, the useful perspective is how staffing and client choices affect each other. Use it to examine the organisation around delivery, while translating examples from its original business context to your agency.
Bring it to your work
Map senior and junior time across a typical engagement and identify where expensive expertise is used poorly. This is a PMC editorial prompt.
Reading context
The inspected ebook is dated 2007 and reproduces a 1993 copyright. Examples and staffing assumptions predate today’s agency tools and require adaptation.
About this reading guide
This guide draws on the source description, contents or sample identified in the edition notes. No external review is cited for this listing.
Prepared with AI assistance from the sources identified on this page. The applications and comparisons are Paid Media Collective suggestions, not claims of full-book reading. An external review does not verify every claim in a book.
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Edition & source notes
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- Reference edition
- Numbered edition unverified
- Format
- ebook
- Reference edition date
- 1 November 2007
- ISBN-13
- 9781416586364
Description and sample reviewed. Sources checked . Book not read in full.
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The inspected ebook is dated 2007 and reproduces a 1993 copyright. Examples and staffing assumptions predate today’s agency tools and require adaptation.
Applications, priorities and coverage depth are editorial judgments. Book not read in full.
Source facts and reading prompts prepared with AI assistance. The named authors and linked publishers retain credit for the original work. Source verification is separate from an assessment of current platform tactics.
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